{"id":2621,"date":"2013-05-20T10:23:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T14:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2013-05-20T10:24:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T14:24:48","slug":"david-freese-gets-stitches-on-right-thumb-after-sundays-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/05\/20\/david-freese-gets-stitches-on-right-thumb-after-sundays-game\/","title":{"rendered":"David Freese gets stitches on right thumb after Sunday&#8217;s game"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2622\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2622\" style=\"width: 677px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2622\" alt=\"davidfreese\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/davidfreese.jpg\" width=\"677\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/davidfreese.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/davidfreese-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Third basmen David Freese needed stitches on his right thumb following Sunday&#8217;s game against the Milwaukee Brewers.<\/p>\n<p>Freese suffered a cut from the cleats of Norichika Aoki during a run down in the first inning. He was able to stay in the game and ended the day with two hits.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals expect Freese to be fine going forward according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/sports\/baseball\/professional\/boggs-begins-anew-with-cardinals\/article_971b7839-6304-51dd-bb98-f19ce6eb8546.html\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Dispatch<\/a>. This season Freese is hitting just .223\/.292\/.282 with a home run and nine RBI in 30 games.<\/p>\n<p>It was a big series against the Breweres for Freese as he hit a grand slam in Friday&#8217;s win and played catch with WWE stars The Bella Twins.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d4G7RtUf0SM\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third basmen David Freese needed stitches on his right thumb following Sunday&#8217;s game against the Milwaukee Brewers. Freese suffered a cut from the cleats of Norichika Aoki during a run down in the first inning. He was able to stay in the game and ended the day with two hits. The Cardinals expect Freese to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[101,29],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-2621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-david-freese","9":"tag-st-louis-cardinals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}